"It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely."
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"She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
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"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should."
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"Vanity, not love, has been my folly."
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"She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings."
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"Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done."
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"The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not."
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"there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out."
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"But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?"
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"Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now."
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"I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage."
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"She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry."
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"If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated."
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"Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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"He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away."
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"It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable."
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"He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed."
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"When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination."
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"He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again."
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"Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with."
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